David Allnutt

“Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?”
― Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward

“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
― Carl Sagan